Profile and Curriculum Connection
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AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY,CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
Curriculum Framework
Correcting Misinformation
LESSON PLAN MODELS
Primary
Intermediate
Middle School
Senior High
Office of Indian Education
Dept. of Children, Families & Learning
1500 Highway 36 West
Roseville, MN 55113-4266
651-582-8831
CORRECTING MISINFORMATION
Columbus
Bering Strait myth
Heroes
Trinkets & beads
Thanksgiving
Treaties
How, who, why signed?
Learner Outcome
Students will be able to relate how history includes misinformation and bias.
CORRECTING MISINFORMATION
Applicable Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning:
COMPREHENSIVE GRADUATION GOALS
Minnesota graduates can function effectively as:
purposeful thinkers,
effective communicators,
self-directed learners,
productive group participants, and
responsible citizens.
GRADUATION STANDARDS
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
Basic competency in the skills of:
Basic knowledge of fundamental concepts from:
REQUIRED PROFILE OF LEARNING
To achieve a diploma a student must show an appropriate level of achievement in each of the following
elements:
Learning Area One Read, Listen and View
Read, listen and view complex information in English
Learning Area Two Write and Speak
Write and speak effectively in English
Learning Area Five Inquiry and Research
Conduct research and communicate findings
Learning Area Seven Social Studies
Understand interactions among people and cultures
Learning Area Nine Economics
Manage resources for a household, business or other
organization
LEARNER OUTCOME
Students will be able to:
relate examples of how history includes misinformation and bias. [Emphasis added]
ATTRIBUTES
This outcome includes:
- recognizing point of view of writers and speakers.
- realizing that the record of the past is fragmentary, selective and
biased.
- knowing that the role of written records and the people who
kept them have been exaggerated at the expense of those who
did not keep written records or whose records were not considered
as informative.
- realizing that most often history has been written by the victors